Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 322
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Thurston moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (925284) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete line 135
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 4. By July 1, 2019, the Agency for Health Care
    7  Administration shall submit an amendment to this state’s Section
    8  1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to the Federal Government to
    9  provide health care coverage through the statewide Medicaid
   10  managed medical assistance program for adults 19 to 65 years of
   11  age with family incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty
   12  level and who do not otherwise qualify for Medicaid.
   13         Section 5. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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   15  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   16  And the title is amended as follows:
   17         Delete lines 2 - 30
   18  and insert:
   19         An act relating to health care coverage; creating ss.
   20         627.6046 and 627.65612, F.S.; defining the terms
   21         “operative date” and “preexisting medical condition”
   22         with respect to individual and group health insurance
   23         policies, respectively; requiring insurers, contingent
   24         upon the occurrence of either of two specified events,
   25         to make at least one comprehensive major medical
   26         health insurance policy available to all residents of
   27         this state within a specified timeframe; prohibiting
   28         such insurers from excluding, limiting, denying, or
   29         delaying coverage under such policies due to
   30         preexisting medical conditions; requiring such
   31         policies to have been actively marketed on a specified
   32         date and during a certain timeframe before that date;
   33         providing applicability; amending s. 641.31, F.S.;
   34         defining the terms “operative date” and “preexisting
   35         medical condition” with respect to health maintenance
   36         contracts; requiring health maintenance organizations,
   37         contingent upon the occurrence of either of two
   38         specified events, to make at least one comprehensive
   39         major medical health maintenance contract available to
   40         all residents of this state within a specified
   41         timeframe; prohibiting such health maintenance
   42         organizations from excluding, limiting, denying, or
   43         delaying coverage under such contracts due to
   44         preexisting medical conditions; requiring such
   45         contracts to have been actively marketed on a
   46         specified date and during a certain timeframe before
   47         that date; requiring the Agency for Health Care
   48         Administration, by a specified date, to submit an
   49         amendment to this state’s Section 1115 Medicaid
   50         demonstration waiver to the Federal Government to
   51         provide health care coverage for certain adults
   52         through the statewide managed medical assistance
   53         program; providing an effective date.